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A review by perfect_leaves
College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students by Jeffrey J. Selingo
2.0
Full review < href="http://www.sarabieventide.com/2017/07/25/college-unbound/">here, excerpt below.
As the title promises, College (Un)bound is an investigation of the problems with U.S. higher education and some of the approaches various firms are taking to solve them. While the information in the book was decent, none of it was new or surprising. I tried to pretend I was back in 2013 and the advances that have happened since then didn’t yet exist, but it was fruitless. The fact of the matter is, not very much has changed in U.S. higher education in the last 4 years. This book added nothing to my life, because I knew all of the issues it discussed. I will give Selingo credit for discussing some of the solutions. Although they mostly fell along the same vein of thought (separating the college degree from the “college experience” and moving at least part of the education system online), I hadn’t heard of some of the companies, and I plan on checking them out.
For some people, the information in the book may be a revelation; people who do not have family members who have been to college may benefit from the book. It’s possible that people whose family members have attended uni for hundreds of years without taking a critical look at the system may also benefit from reading College (Un)bound. I, however, fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
As the title promises, College (Un)bound is an investigation of the problems with U.S. higher education and some of the approaches various firms are taking to solve them. While the information in the book was decent, none of it was new or surprising. I tried to pretend I was back in 2013 and the advances that have happened since then didn’t yet exist, but it was fruitless. The fact of the matter is, not very much has changed in U.S. higher education in the last 4 years. This book added nothing to my life, because I knew all of the issues it discussed. I will give Selingo credit for discussing some of the solutions. Although they mostly fell along the same vein of thought (separating the college degree from the “college experience” and moving at least part of the education system online), I hadn’t heard of some of the companies, and I plan on checking them out.
For some people, the information in the book may be a revelation; people who do not have family members who have been to college may benefit from the book. It’s possible that people whose family members have attended uni for hundreds of years without taking a critical look at the system may also benefit from reading College (Un)bound. I, however, fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.